https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/sql/ Recent content in SQL on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/2026-05-30-perconalive-bayarea-keynote-performance-tuning/ Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/2026-05-30-perconalive-bayarea-keynote-performance-tuning/ AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/evaluating-readyset-caching-for-mysql-2025-03-15/ Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/evaluating-readyset-caching-for-mysql-2025-03-15/ Readyset is a database caching solution for MySQL and PostgreSQL . For applications that have increased load on your primary database, or use scale-out infrastructure to support a high-read workload, ReadySet can be a drop-in solution to address current performance issues. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/creating-a-more-realistic-benchmark-2025-03-10/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/creating-a-more-realistic-benchmark-2025-03-10/ Common benchmark approaches fall into two general categories, synthetic testing and realistic testing. You have the most generic operations from a synthetic test, starting with the most simple example using a single table, a single column, and for a single DML operation.